How Olivia de Havilland and Ronald Reagan saved Hollywood--and America--from Communism

On Olivia de Havilland’s 101st birthday [July 1, 1916], she should be remembered for being the first Hollywood liberal to publicly expose and to call for an end to the alliance with Communists and fellow-travelers. She asked Hollywood actors to choose between being advocates for liberal democracy, and giving support to the Soviet Union’s line during the start of what became the Cold War. That effort deserves to be celebrated, and de Havilland praised for her courage and the integrity of her action.

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Founders

In 1978, the farmers in a small Chinese village called Xiaogang gathered in a mud hut to sign a secret contract. They thought it might get them executed. Instead, it wound up transforming China's economy in ways that are still reverberating today. . .

The Secret Document That Transformed China's Economy With Private Property and Competition

DID YOU KNOW?

Without American help, the Chilean miners would still be entombed deep within the earth.

Citizens have been wondering why President Obama failed to publicly congratulate AMERICAN ingenuity and AMERICAN PRIVATE ENTERPRISE for the miracle rescue of the Chilean Miners? [Hint: it didn't have anything to do with Big Government upon which altar he worships daily.]

Schramm Inc. of West Chester, Pennsylvania built the drills and equipment used to reach the trapped miners.

Center Rock Company, also from Pennsylvania, built the drill bits used to reach the miners.

UPS, the US shipping company, delivered the 13-ton drilling equipment
from Pennsylvania to Chile in less than 48 hours.

Crews from Layne Christensen Company of Wichita, Kansas, and its
subsidiary Geotec Boyles Bros. worked the drills and machinery to locate and reach the miners and then enlarge the holes to ultimately rescue them.

Jeff Hart of Denver Colorado was called off his job drilling water wells for the U.S. Army's forward operating bases in Afghanistan to lead the
drilling crew that reached the miners.

Atlas Copco Construction Mining Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, provided consulting on how to make drilling equipment from different sources work together under differing pressure specifications.

Aries Central California Video of Fresno, California, designed the special cameras that were lowered nearly a mile into the ground sending back
video of the miners.

Zephyr Technologies of Annapolis, Maryland, made the remote monitors of vital signs that miners will wear during their ascent.

NASA Engineers designed the "Phoenix" capsule that miners would be
brought to the surface in, and provided medical consulting, special
diets and spandex suits to maintain miners' blood pressure as they're
brought back to the surface.

Oh, and Canadian-based Precision Drilling Corp. and South-African
company Murray & Roberts drilled backup rescue shafts in case the
American rig failed (which it didn't).

Rick Solar, Inc.
Contract Manager
Machinery Management Services
Bayview Cogeneration Facility

NOVEMBER: Americans must make a choice in favor of their traditional free enterprise system or else they will lose it.

Last week, Congressman Paul Ryan and I published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal entitled “The Size of Government and the Choice This Fall.” The article argues that Americans must make a choice in favor of their traditional free enterprise system or else they will lose it. Why? Because otherwise the choice will be made for them—a rejection of free enterprise and an embrace of big government, not in one fell swoop but one seemingly small, creeping government expansion at a time.

Our Journal piece ends with this:

Every day, more see that the road to serfdom in America does not involve a knock in the night or a jack-booted thug. It starts with smooth-talking politicians offering seemingly innocuous compromises, and an opportunistic leadership that chooses not to stand up for America’s enduring principles of freedom and entrepreneurship.

The article provoked a great deal of reaction...

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Fairness vs. Freedom

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Former chamber musician now freedom fighter Arthur C. Brooks on Reason T.V.

Author of
THE BATTLE